USA: Protests over GMO Label Law
US food safety campaigners outraged over GMO label law Campaigners say new law allows producers to obscure GMO content on food packaging Many believe GMOs and pesticides are harmful to people`s health and the environment [EPA] Food
Published : 04 August 2016
New WB Policies Imperil Environment, Land Defenders
Just 5 months since the murder of Honduran environmental defender Berta Caceres, the Bank is passing new safeguards that do more harm than good. The World Bank is expected to approve Thursday its new “Environmental and Social Framework” which civil society
Published : 04 August 2016
A Forgotten Population
As the recipient of the 2015 EMRA Global Health Initiative Award and as the senior teaching assistant of Post-conflict Colombia and Public Health: A Project of the Open Hands Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in
Published : 04 August 2016
GCC Needs Low-energy Architecture
GCC need to focus on low-energy architecture The pressure on the UAE and the rest of the GCC countries to focus on new low-energy architecture will increase over the next eight years as billions of dollars
Published : 29 July 2016
HIC Addresses Habitat III PrepCom3
The “New Urban Agenda,” from its inception, is inconsistent with historic agreements, today’s global priorities and the “world we need.” Particular interests have narrowed the Habitat Agenda to urban priorities, subordinated rural areas and ignored
Published : 27 July 2016
Questioning the New Urban Agenda
SURABAYA—Prepcom 3 Habitat III is all over the city of Surabaya these days. Banners, signage and media on many streets and their corners carry the message “Toward a New Urban Agenda” and “H III” as
Published : 27 July 2016
Struggling to Chart Habitat II Implementation
Note: HIC-HLRN republishes this article from Citiscope as a report from the ““Fulfilling Habitat Commitments: Assessing the Past - Constructing a Platform for Action,” Surabaya, 24 July 2016. However, this does not suggest that HIC
Published : 26 July 2016
H3-PrepCom3: What Papua New Guinea Said
The Habitat III PrepCom3 state intervention that should turn our heads came from Papua New Guinea. Download it here.
Published : 26 July 2016
Struggling to Chart Habitat II Implementation
Note: HIC-HLRN republishes this article from Citiscope as a report from the ““Fulfilling Habitat Commitments: Assessing the Past - Constructing a Platform for Action,” Surabaya, 24 July 2016. However, this does not suggest that HIC
Published : 26 July 2016
